by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)
Located in Tennessee in the East of the United States.
The precursor organization to ORNL was called Clinton Engineer Works, where groundbreaking Manhattan Project experiments and nuclear production took place during World War II
Some key experiments carried out there include:
This was an intermediate step between the nuclear chain reaction prototype Chicago Pile-1 and the full blown plutonium mass production at Hanford site. Located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Figure 1.
Exterior of the X-10 Graphite Reactor in 1950
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Figure 2.
Workers loading Uranium into the X-10 Graphite Reactor with a rod
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Precursor organization to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, name that it took in January 1948.
Produced the enriched uranium used for Little Boy, located in the area/predecessor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Figure 1.
Y-12 shift change photograph
. Source. At the back, a poster reads:
Make C.E.W. count: continue to protect project information
What a fantastic picture!

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the largest science and energy national laboratory in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) system. Located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, it was established during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, which aimed to develop atomic weapons. Over the years, ORNL's mission has expanded beyond nuclear research to encompass a wide array of scientific disciplines.
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